I remember kids used to look up to people like postmen and bus drivers. They help move our society (a dirty word in America, now). These days they deal with arguably more, and are told they are whining for demanding financial and human decency. 🤷♂
I feel their pain, you don't have time at home with your family. Working 6 days a week almost 7, not by choice. Your body is tired 😫, Passengers are getting mad 😠 at you like the operator can change anything the system does. I'm looking right now to get out of the seat. The money is good but at a cost.
I’d have to agree. There were about 11 people in my class. By the time class and training were done there were only 6. Many new people I met who had been hired before and after me also left. The job has very little incentive to stay as a new person. Your schedule sucks, pay sucks (many newcomers had a 2nd job), passengers can suck at times and the way the company is run isn’t great. The only thing that’s good is that you can ride anywhere in the system for free and pay gets much better in a couple of years, but people have bills today, not in a couple of years. Naturally, I eventually left too.
Most people who stay have stories about how they were on the verge of losing their homes and the job ruining their families … it’s absolutely disgusting how much money the Union steals from your check to ensure you will be a 30yr slave
@@prelznp When I was there the pay when you start was pretty similar for bus operators, streetcar operators and heavy rail operators. Heavy rail operators were paid the most but since it’s part time your check isn’t going to be much. To be clear, this is only when you first start out. When you stick around for a couple of years then the pay gets good. I’ve heard they got a couple of raises in the last year too.
I and many others don't feel safe riding the T anymore. The subway networks condition is deprecating every single day. Working conditions are miserable, you'll get fired for raising genuine concerns with management. "Employees feel stressed and unappreciated." Why would anyone want to work for them?
Why don’t you talk about the actual problem… the T is not paying. The GIC health insurance is absolute garbage the Union doesn’t attempt to change anything etc. your first year you are making around 440 a week and the next 600. This is not 1999 the economy is getting worse and so is the pay
@@RadicalforGod I wonder why they aren’t reporting on the real reason the T is losing workers… my brother and I both worked there .. nobody is walking around scared of being spit on.. this whole report is bs and politics to make it seem like everything is about safety
"Tragic accidents" with the video of the OL fire from 7 months ago where not a single person was injured. There were actual legit tragedies that have happened since then
The previous Governor and the MBTA executive management left these workers out to dry by giving them a piss-poor product to sell (service quality) after years of depriving the transit agency of funding but also fattening their own wallet. The ones that deserve to be spit on are them, not the employees. Shut the T down, fix the product, then restart. Stop spending on expanding the commuter rail.
@@radanju3 they are not reporting the real issue on why the T can’t hire … it’s 22 for bus drivers as well. I work there right now and am considering leaving if there is no real change. On top of the low wage the union takes their dues every week they take 10% out of your already sorry check for pension and they also take 200+ dollars for health insurance. When you work part time you’re pulling in ~420 a week and when you first go full time a little over 600
Good Luck ! No one was born with the word stupid on their forehead! This is not a road of opportunity anyone sane would tread if they only knew whats up the road in joining a "Stick A Fork In It" road to nowhere job. Do yourself a favor and make better employment decisions I can tell you the same ones that played a hand in its failure are the same ones still presiding in its operations. Only someone desperate would dare assume any role of upper executive position in such an organization and stand by a watch the actual hard workers lose everything including their pensions as well as allow continuous failures within its ranks to remain while being grossly mismanaged. The MBTA was once a prized job you could be proud of however the dichotomy has negatively shifted. There's nothing anyone can do but pretty much stand by and watch. The time to save the MBTA has come and gone. RIP
I have a solution: automate the subways and the surface rapid transit and light rail but separate from the subways and connect together the street-running trolleys on the B, D & E branches to run as pre-metro trams. Then there will be more drivers for the busses and improved operation and frequencies for the subways!
Lowest bid that the public always asks for (rather than the more expensive model that can do the job slightly better) is why the MBTA is where it is. The lowest 'bid' cannot do any of the nice shiny things you see on TV or in the movies. But the public always says they prefer tax cuts rather than splurging on something a little better. So the MBTA will never be what you just asked for because the public doesn't want it and the companies bidding do the bare minimum and if they tried to do what you said it would be soo terrible at-it you and others would literally complain about it all day until the MBTA had enough and shut down any automated system.
